I have put my question in this forum because I don't know where else to put it even though I know it is not actually a problem with my monitor or video card.I have an unusual and annoying graphics display problem and I seem to be the only person on this planet with this problem.I had my PC rebuilt six months ago by a cheap fly by nighter. Cheap!!!??? It still cost me over $700.00 to repair it and then the guy disappeared and I couldn't get the problem solved. Maybe one of you guys may have a clue. I make a lot of videos and make a lot of 3D animations. Mostly I am using Premiere Pro CS3 for the videos and Cool 3D Production Studio for the animations. The problem I will try to describe occurs with all my programs it is just more obvious and annoying with the ones I mentioned. When a window is open it may go all wavy for a second. This is intermittent and only occurs with Premiere Pro. With all the other programs, if I open a window on top of another the display from the one underneath peeps through and at times I can not see what I am doing and cannot click on buttons because they are under a graphic that is poking through. I have had a few technical friends look at the PC but no one can solve the problem. I am about to buy a completely new PC, even though I just bought this one, as it is driving me mad. I would love to know what could cause this problem anyway. I have attached a couple of screenshots which show the garbled screen. I cannot show the wavy screen unless I capture with camtasia, which I will do if it will help. My Computer Specs are :- Windows Home XP with SP2 and all updates; Intel(R) Core(TM) 2CPU 6300@ 1.86GHz. Without going in to too much more detail I have had the motherboard replaced with a different model and the same with the VGA card. My computer behaves exactly the same on other monitors. Attached are two screenshots from Cool 3D.I think you can see what I mean. Anyone got any ideas?
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Jump to Postbase on what i am looking at i beleive your need to set your refresh rafe to a faster refresh hz = (hertz) this needs to be be done both on the monitor and your video card setting.
Jump to Postif the refresh rate does not fix this, then most likely the cpu would be at fault. compare the spec on the old mobo to the new one, are they diff/simular. the processor is probably too slow for the fsb on the new mobo or you could very well be …
Jump to PostHave you installed the drivers for your graphics card?
That sounds like the most likely problem
Jump to Postyou processor is not able to render the graphics base on the speed of the mobo fsb and the graphic card speed. is it pci or agp card. try another slot if u have that option.
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